What is the
quintessence of this directive? Meant is -
to save firstly - the interest of the Third Reich. Their aim was, that patents should generally be accessable to every entity in the Third Reich. So that
everybody of whom haveing an interest in an invention (thus would like to use or
explore it)
could do so. Of course, they were obliged to pay a fair fee (Lizenzbereitschaft).

Curious is, that allowing other entities to use your
invention includes also
competitors. The objectives of the Third Reich was,
however, more far reaching. Why should names of inventors (patent owners and
inventors) being removed from patent files? This was already foreseen in their
new patent Legislation of late 1936 (See the article in:
Siemens-Zeitung
1937, particularly pdf page 4) and
Patengesetz von 1936(very interesting
contribution, giving credit to Britain's very successful patent system since the
17th century) and/or Patent-history, (this
latter article deals with Werner von Siemens' huge struggle as to establish a
German patent system (legislation) in the 1870s)

Considering these references, it is evident that
inventions should benefiting the Country*,
egoism should be blocked (prevented)! We have to regard, that this 'VO' being in the line of "communal
profiting". One had in these circumstances a choice, give away (sharing) your exclusive
patent rights (of claims) or the State was taking its rights to possess these claims**!
* I believe, that his was, to some extent, practised in most
countries, especially in wartimes. ** Even today, patents are sometimes being kept
as to stop
competitors from accessing new technologies, even when they themselves refuse to
use it!

What the legal status of some of these
patents was at the day of Germany's unconditional surrender, has not been subject
of many discussions. All German patents were considered firstly being a trophy of war!
The interest of Allied owned German firms were cleared quite soon in post war years.
We have to think of, for instance: Ford, ITT and Opel which latter was owned by
GM, though also AEG which company
had pre-war (rather close) contacts to GE in the US. However, a bulk of patent documents were kept in the US and returned
successively in the 1970/1980s. I have designated these curious patent files,
like: DExxxx ap, where 'ap' stands for: application form, what these documents actually
are. Notice for instance:
DE762245. It is visible that Telefunken's name had been 'erased (deleted)'
in conjunction with VO. vom 15.1.44 .... . Also its 'application number'
T559?9 VIII 21g*** was deleted. Curious is, though, that this (particular) patent was,
nevertheless, granted (effectively since 14 December 1944). Consider also its pdf page 9
('PA' stand for: Patent-Antrag, not being equal to the Patent Office application number).***
T means Telefunken